Johnston Press to run digital newsrooms

Johnston Press, the regional newspaper chain, is planning to integrate up to 60 of its larger newsrooms by the middle of next year. Its decision follows a pilot project at the Lancashire Evening Post in Preston which integrated online and print operations. Tim Bowdler, the Johnston ceo, says the digital newsroom has widened the paper's audience, with younger readers accessing the website since the start of the project in January and overall page impressions rising from 40,000 to 1.4m. (Via FT.com)